Travel News

The Lesotho team, made up of representatives from the Accommodation, Travel Agency, Tour Operation & Guiding, is currently attending Africa’s biggest Travel Indaba 2018 in Durban, South Africa. The show takes place every year in the month of May. This year’s INDABA began on the 8th May and will be over on the 10th May.

In an effort to promote tourism in Lesotho and improve the standards and image of this beautiful Kingdom in the Sky, the Lesotho tourism Development Corporation established the Lesotho Quality Star Grading System in 2013.

In its endeavour to enhance the quality of service in the tourism industry, thereby promote tourism in Lesotho, LTDC in collaboration with UNWTO through the ST-EP Foundation Project is on the drive to develop and promote rural tourism businesses. The project covers the areas; Ha Baroana, Malimong, Kome and Thaba-Bosiu on the east of Maseru. The project is co-funded by both LTDC and UNWTO STEP Foundation.

The 10th Annual Historical Moshoeshoe Walk was held on the 10th to 12th March 2016. According to the walk’s Official, slightly more than 600 hundred participants from Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe took part in this historical undertaking in honour of the late Moshoeshoe I, the founder of Basotho nation.